The First Pole

14th January 2008 with 0 Comments

Henryk Sienkiewicz was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1905. He is best known for his epic historical novel Quo Vadis, which depicts the persecutions of the early Christians. There have been a couple of film adaptations of the novel, a Hollywood version in 1951 and another from Poland in 2001.
Sienkiewicz was born in [...]

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